Undergraduate Student Awards
Berkeley IEOR at INFORMS 2022
Berkeley IEOR walked away with several awards during the 2022 Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) annual meeting. Professor Candace Yano was the recipient of the 2022 INFORMS President’s Award. The honor was presented by current INFORMS president Radhika Kulkarni, who served as chair of the selection committee, which included two previous…
Read MoreCongratulations to the 2022 Jengyee Prize Co-Winners
We are delighted to announce that Jessi Fernandez (Class of 2023) and Deisy Garcia (Class of 2022) are this year’s Jengyee Prize – Leadership for a Better World co-winners. Established in 2010, the Jengyee Prize recognizes undergraduate students who demonstrate outstanding leadership, service, and commitment to advancing a better world. This year, the Prize honors…
Read MoreAnnouncing the 2022 Jengyee Prize – Win A $2000 Scholarship!
Attention all Berkeley undergraduates! The 2022 Jengyee Prize – Leadership for a Better World — is now accepting applications. The $2,000 prize is awarded annually and is open to all undergraduate students with a sophomore or higher standing, regardless of gender, race, creed, or national origin. The Jengyee Prize – Leadership for a Better World aims to…
Read MoreAnnouncing Vishrut Rana as the 2021 Joe Arai Undergraduate Research Fellow
The Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research is pleased to announce that Vishrut Rana will be receiving the 2021 Joe Arai Undergraduate Research Fellowship, which includes a research experience with a member of the IEOR faculty and a $4,000 stipend. Vishrut is a rising senior pursuing a major in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research,…
Read MoreAnnouncing Sharjeel Laeeq as 2021 Jengyee Prize Recipient
Congratulations to Sharjeel Laeeq for winning the 2021 Jengyee Prize, Leadership for a Better World scholarship. Sharjeel is a graduating senior in Mechanical Engineering who recently helped a neglected town in Pakistan to install a Reverse Osmosis (RO) system to provide more clean drinking water to residents utilizing his own funds. He plans to further expand his efforts this summer. Sharjeel also serves as…
Read MoreAnnouncing the 2022 Jengyee Prize – Win A $2000 Scholarship!
Attention all Berkeley undergraduates! The 2022 Jengyee Prize – Leadership for a Better World — is now accepting applications. The $2,000 prize is awarded annually and is open to all undergraduate students with a sophomore or higher standing, regardless of gender, race, creed, or national origin. The Jengyee Prize – Leadership for a Better World aims to…
Read MoreBerkeley IEOR Undergrad Wins Best Student Paper Award at KDIR 2020
IEOR Undergraduate Jonathan Bodine (Class of ’21) and Professor Dorit Hochbaum won the Best Student Paper Award at the 12th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (KDIR 2020). The award winning work authored by Bodine and Hochbaum was titled The Max-Cut Decision Tree: Improving on the Accuracy and Running Time of Decision Trees.…
Read MoreAnnouncing the 2020 Jengyee Prize Recipients
Congratulations to Sang-Min Kim and Nicholas Foo for winning the 2020 Jengyee Prize, Leadership for a Better World scholarship. Sang-Min Kim is a graduating senior in Political Science with a minor in Public Health. For the past seven years, he has been actively involved in promoting human rights causes, including reunification of North Koreans with their…
Read MoreAnnouncing the 2020 Jengyee Prize – Win A $2000 Scholarship!
Attention all Berkeley undergraduates! The 2020 Jengyee Prize – Leadership for a Better World — is now accepting applications. The $2,000 prize is awarded annually and is open to all undergraduate students with a sophomore or higher standing, regardless of gender, race, creed, or national origin. The Jengyee Prize – Leadership for a Better World aims to…
Read MoreIEOR undergraduates selected as finalists for INFORMS Operations Research Prize
Three former Berkeley IEOR/ORMS undergraduate students, Liangyuan Na (B.A. Operations Research & Management Science ’18), Cong Yang (B.S. Industrial Engineering & Operations Research ’18), and Chi-Cheng Lo (B.S. Industrial Engineering & Operations Research ’18) are finalists in the INFORMS Undergraduate Operations Research Prize Competition. The students were advised by IEOR assistant professor Anil Aswani, and…
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